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  Executive director of the Bleyzer Foundation, Oleg Ustenko: "This is an absolutely correct position. First, the IMF itself is against over-regulation of the financial sphere. Second, the main requirement is not a flexible rate itself, but the compliance of the financial policy with economic realities, and its predictability. Both requirements have been met..."

   
  15:16, 22.03.2013
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  President Viktor Yanukovych: "We appreciate the role of experts from the International Finance Corporation, operating in Ukraine, and in the areas where we work together we feel the constant assistance, which has a positive effect on the pace of reforms..."

   
  17:26, 21.03.2013
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  Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski: "We warn that Ukraine faces a crucial dilemma, which can be compared with the middle of the 17th century (Treaty of Pereyaslav dated 1654 - ed.) or the beginning of the 20th century (struggle for independence in 1917-1921 - ed.)..."

   
  17:58, 20.03.2013
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  PM Mykola Azarov: "We have to protect our market. We excessively opened it when we signed the relevant agreement [on joining the WTO - ed.]. You know what I mean. And the decision was political rather than economic: the year of 2008, euphoria. We still feel the consequences of such a market openness. Imported goods started coming to our market in a large volume. And, unfortunately, they are not always of a good quality..."

   
  16:24, 19.03.2013
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  Politician and public figure Oleksandr Danutsa: “It is necessary that all participants in the political process in Ukraine recognize today's joyless realities. The situation in the Verkhovna Rada of this convocation has stalled. This is the case when one cannot do in the old way, and others do not want to do in the new way..."

   
  13:45, 18.03.2013
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  Mykhailo Pohrebinsky: "It is important to note certain criticism of the opposition, which has not happened previously. Because different people, including Fule, said that the parliament should work, that blocking the parliament is bad, that it is bad to strip deputies of their mandates by court rulings. In this symmetry both the power is not right, and the opposition is not right because it blocks.

   
  17:54, 14.03.2013